Great Tales of Crime & Detection Anthology (1991)

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History’s pages are stained with blood. Beginning with the chronicle of Cain, our annals are a calendar of crime, in which Death takes no holiday. Lawlessness has always been the stuff of legends and of life itself. No wonder that when fable and folklore were replaced by modern fiction, such sagas of skullduggery endured. Includes the following 25 stories: Out the Window—LAWRENCE BLOCK Major Crimes—LOREN D. ESTLEMAN Silent Warning—WILLIAM J. CARROLL, JR. The Third Man—GRAHAM GREENE The Cross of Lorraine—ISAAC ASIMOV Nameless Enemy—MIRIAM ALLEN DEFORD Tragedy of a Handkerchief—MICHAEL INNES Unc Foils Show Foe—JOHN JAKES Dangerous Widows—MIGNON G. EBERHART Ride the Lightning—JOHN LUTZ Till Tuesday—JEREMIAH HEALY The Pay of the Losers—DICK FRANCIS The Case of the Pietro Andromache—SARA PARETSKY SuSu and the 8:30 Ghost—LILIAN JACKSON BRAUN The Investigation Of Things—CHARLES ARDAI The Trailor Murder Mystery—ABRAHAM LINCOLN The Importance of Trifles—AVRAM DAVIDSON A Double-Barrelled Detective Story—MARK TWAIN The Adventure of the Oval Window—JOHN H. DIRCKX Your Appointment Is Cancelled—ANTONIA FRASER Le Château de L’Arsenic—GEORGES SIMENON The Nine Mile Walk—HARRY KEMELMAN Crime in Rhyme—ROBERT BLOCH The Purloined Letter—EDGAR ALLAN POE The Man With The Twisted Lip—ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE